Obama's message for Netanyahu: Israel faces bleak future should talks fail

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4494355,00.html

The American ability to protect Israel against global isolation is waning, US President Barack Obama said in an interview published Sunday, in particular if the Palestinians decide that there is no chance for them to achieve statehood.

“If Palestinians come to believe that the possibility of a contiguous sovereign Palestinian state is no longer within reach, then our ability to manage the international fallout is going to be limited," Obama told Jeffrey Goldberg on Thursday in an hour-long Oval Office meeting.

Obama said that he would warn Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in their meeting Monday that time is running out for Israel as a democracy with a Jewish majority, and would make the case that Netanyahu alone "has the strength and political credibility to lead his people away from the precipice."
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“Do you resign yourself to what amounts to a permanent occupation of the West Bank?" he posited. "Is that the character of Israel as a state for a long period of time? Do you perpetuate, over the course of a decade or two decades, more and more restrictive policies in terms of Palestinian movement? Do you place restrictions on Arab-Israelis in ways that run counter to Israel’s traditions?”

Time is running out for Israel, and the apartheid picnic has become deaf to the calls of common sense.

[madaboutharry]

1. What a pity

the leadership in 1967 failed to listen to the warning given to them by former Prime Minister David Ben Gurion. He told them to withdraw from all the territories seized in the 6 day war. He warned that occupation would lead to not only corruption of the military, but the soul of Israel as well. It was as if he saw into the future.